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WIPs posted with my fashion workshop stuff.

YES! Assessment week is over~~
Probably the worst thing was 3U maths. That was the worst day too.
Seriously, it was on April Fools and life probably thought it was funny to pull a prank on me.
I woke up late, rushed to get ready, ran to the bus stop with my not-quite-big-enough umbrella in the pouring rain, miss the bus, then go back home to beg ask my dad to drop me off at school.
Feel all horrible for making him go through bad morning traffic, get to school, no one's there, 20 minutes later someone tells me our exam was during period 2.
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Uhuh.
<sup>..then like fail the test...

Resolutions to remind self OTL;;;;
☆ Finish Chapter 1 of Dead Last
☆ Complete 75% of my 100 themes challenge
☆ At least 1 full colour submission a month</sup>


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Dear Scanlations
Updates and Downloads
Chapter 25 is out now! Thank you to ~Tiny-ChiFi for helping with the QC for this chapter. Comments, suggestions and any help is appreciated.
As I've stated before, please do not upload the files elsewhere, if anyone needs a mirror link then just ask and I will so so myself. Enjoy!

Volume 6:
Chapter 25: [link]
Chapter 26: In Translation
Chapter 27: Scanning
Chapter 28: Scanning
Chapter 29: Scanning
Chapter 30: Scanning


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Manga/Anime Reviews

Denpatteki na Kanojo
Hmmm I watched the first episode a while ago when it came out but no episodes yet since..
Seems quite interesting. Huh, I wonder what's Ame and Jun's secret past.

Kuroshitsuji
Oh man, the final episode was so beautiful.
I see where the ending theme animation comes from now.

Tora Dora
WHEN WILL THE NEXT EPISODE COME OUT?!

Zoku Natsume Yuujincho
Aww the last episode of this series as well...
Kai-kun was so moe, haha. Pretty much every character that Natsume encounters don't stay very long..
I really liked this series throughout the whole two seasons. Every episode has its own story and plot that eventually fits into the big picture. It makes me want to do fanart for each episode or something. Maybe one day, yeah?



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Life/Art
ごめんカイヤ！アニマニアに行ったなかった！

I really shouldn't be writing this now, totally neglecting my studies here _hurhur
In any case I should be pretty free for a couple of weeks after this week with my assessments

About two weeks back I managed to snag myself a scholarship for a one week fashion drawing course at the Whitehouse Institute of Design. Man, I was so surprised. We had a one day introductory workshop at school and one person gets picked for the scholarship who they think tries their best and will get the most out of it. There were also two certificates for something like highly commended. I guess I shouldn't just try to portray myself as some person with no idea of my skills so I think it's fair to say while I thought I wouldn't be able to get the scholarship I thought I would get one of the other awards, lol.

Hmmm, does anyone want to see what I drew/did? XD If anyone does I might upload with a couple of my WIP pics as my desktop screen shot <--- goodness knows I need to change that already!

I HAVE BEEN FINALLY HOOKED IN THE VOCALOID FANDOM!!!
Well it started with watching World is Mine and now I am into "Love is War" AKA 「恋は戦争」
I think I have almost every version or at least watched every version that exists for these two songs.. I'll move on to the next sometime next week? XDDD

Some fav Video links:
World is Mine: [link]
Another: World is Mine (Kaito): [link]
Love is War: [link]
Love is War (Kaito ver. Cover by Nodo Kita(?): [link]

Ahh man I actually love Len's voice too, even more than Kaito's though I didn't put a link here..
Damn I really wish my Japanese was good enough that I could understand the remake versions of the songs without lots of thinking required.... I actually have come to like Mikuo's voice, especially for Love is War, hurhur. Only fan-made vocaloid I like at this point.


Resolutions to remind self OTL;;;;
☆ Finish Chapter 1 of Dead Last <-- ...sort of, just haven't posted any new chapters.
☆ Complete 75% of my 100 themes challenge <--hasn't gone anywhere yet...
☆ At least 1 full colour submission a month <-- so far this is going well


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Dear Scanlations
Updates and Downloads

Alrighty! The first chapter of volume six is going through QC and the next chapter is in Translation! The chapter 17a can be found in previous journal.

Volume 6:
Chapter 25: QC
Chapter 26: In Translation
Chapter 27: Scanning
Chapter 28: Scanning
Chapter 29: Scanning
Chapter 30: Scanning


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Manga/Anime Reviews

Kuroshitsuji
D:! Why do I get the feeling this anime is about to wrap up soon? Man, the previous episode with Ash being Angela was a little bit of a shocker, I knew they were related somehow but not like THAT _{the whole same body is just a littly bit psychotic, just a little, lol}

Tora Dora
Omg, last ep is coming I think. OTL
The previous episode was like a super turnover, you have to admit its a no surprise when Taiga and Ryuuji get together but, getting married so quick?! Hahaha but I loved the part at the end of the episode where he's full like: "...this is my wife!"

Zoku Natsume Yuujincho
Haaaa~~~ I swear, Natsume would be like totally kick-ass nicer Reiko if he learnt to control his powers. Madara can be so annoying at times then POOF hes so big and awesome, and.. did I mention awesome?! xD

Vampire Knight Guilty
Well this series finished a while ago but I never wrote anything to sum it up. I think the anime does clear quite a few things up in the manga that are harder to interpret.. The ending, well if you like happy endings, I suggest you don't watch it. In fact you should have know better than to pick up the manga at all XD No doubt there is more "hope" at the end of the anime than my prediction of the end of the manga. After all, I think it was quite clear since the beginning that there would be a tragic love story in the series. Honestly I hope its not Zero.. but at this rate, there's just no other option unless Matsuri-sensei manages to twist things that way. It's not like Yuuki would every abandon Kaname-nii. Just no way. Us hopeful fans can just hope for the best _{(which would be a KanaYuuZero ending)}


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No news is good news. Any news is good news (after all it means I'm still alive here, right?)

Life/Art

Hey~ Its been a while!
I I just came back from Hawaii on the 4th, it was so hot and humid there!!
Actually I was only in Hawaii for about 2 days, I've mostly been staying in San Francisco. I went to various places in California and just entered Las Vegas state for a day (so many casinos!) Many funny/interesting things happened or I found out about. Skiing at Lake Tahoe for 3 days was awesome, I went to a difference place each day! Theres just too many things to write about that I probably won't as to not spam yourselves with usefullless information XD

I have like so much stuff to catch up on (read: return into order) I just finished writing 5 letters for friends in Japan (Yes, I DO enjoy writing snail mail, maybe not so many at once though) I still have one more to write! I also have like ton of manga/anime to catch up on (though manga is almost up to date now after reading like 200 chapters of various series XD)


A bit of sad news, which you may already know, my dog Tango passed away just one week before I came back and his ninth birthday on the 3rd or January. We just received his ashes from the Pet Rest a couple of days ago. It was quite a shock for the whole family, especially probably for my grandmother (who is not OLD) and my aunt/uncle as they took care of him while I was away. They are not that strong and had witnessed at first hand what had happened a few hours after his final moments. It was quite a horrific experience which I shouldn't go into detail and it is still very hard for them. I have to really thank them for taking such a good job of taking care of the matter. On the other hand some good news is that my two siamese fighting fish are miraculously alive for such a ridiculously long time. Typically they only live for a year old at most but now, for the first time they are very much older than 2 years. It is funny because the reason they are still here is that during the winter time we lit a candle under each fishbowl to keep the water warmer(don't worry, we didn't cook them )

Anyway, onto art. Actually despite the fact that I've been overseas, luckily enough I remembered to bring my pacer/eraser and a few sheets of my drawing paper with me in case I get bored or something so I actually HAVE been drawing, somewhat. About maybe four or five sketches, one of which is a prize for a contest which shall be posted when I finish deciding on the background. Although this is kind of late here are my New Years Resolutions related to DA.

☆ Finish Chapter 1 of Dead Last
☆ Complete 75% of my 100 themes challenge
☆ At least 1 full colour submission a month

I haven't made ones that are ridiculous this year and should be actually DOABLE as to be realistic, (not like something such as get 100% for all my school subjects)

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Dear Scanlations
Updates and Downloads

Ho hum, looks like I accidentally named Chapter 17a and 16b, oh well. Anyway the cut+past message will be below the updates.

I finally have a person who has applied as a staff member (hurray!) :cheer: She shall remain a secret member until the next chapter though, fufufu. Hopefully releases will be faster now with a scans cleaner. Another thing is i have decided to scanlate from VOLUME 6 onwards This is because I don't want to have an overlap with any other group that may be scanlating the series, the gap will probably be closed by awillfulmuse scan group. I thought that volume 6 would be a good place to start off because Cocoa-sensei's style and book cover begins to change.

I am still looking for some more people who can help me translate some of the hard parts so if you are pretty fluent enough at Japanese please tell me! It would make the process of releasing chapters faster.

Even if you cannot help with the translation, I would greatly appreciate if anyone would help promote the series and link here for chapters once they are up!
Also, I would just like to say beforehand, please do not upload the files elsewhere once they are up, if anyone needs a mirror link then just ask and I will so so myself. Comments will be appreciated!

Chapter 17a [link] <-- the file says 16a though


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Manga/Anime Updates
I'll update this anime section section some more later/next time as I am doing some serious catching up business with all series right now!

Kurenai Chapter 12
Uuuuuu.... This chapter was full of Shikurou's angst, I can't believe they left our such an important development in the anime. Murasaki really shows she's mature at these important times. I guess the anime had left it out because its meant to have the slice of life feel or something. I find it ather irritating that they left out Tamaki-san's pwnage abilities to kick ass, it terms of physical strength I think she is definately stronger than Shinkurou, but then again, as Echizen Ryouma says "mada mada da ne".

Nurarihyon no Mago
Holy crap, the chapters I just caught up on for the last few chapters are like progressing so damn fast! I can't believe the big battle is gonna be up in just the next chapter between the bake-tanuki and Rikuo! I really liked the events leading up to this. How Rikuo what doing everything himself and Zen started noticing that he was pushing himself. I cracked up when I saw Gozu and Mezu's infiltration tactics. I think most of the lower class, I mean, ESPECIALLY the lower class youkai are so stupid, but that's to be expected. I wonder a lot about Rikuo's day and night forms though, like how does it work with the two different people in one body? Like whether day form and sleep when night form takes over? Since day forn knows what night form does.. and vice-versa..

Vampire Knight
Sorry, not on the anime, not up to it yet! But chapter 46 great for all fan-shippers revolving Yuuki, Kaname or Zero.. but but.. On the other hand this chapter was so sad, Yuuki and Zero are now seriously going to be on separate paths.. I love Sagakure's scanlations of the series and reading her little side comments give you so much more insight of the chapter/pages you might miss without her super eye for details, I do recommend reading them after reading the whole chapter once though so you don't break the tension of what ever is happening.

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Just a quick note to say I'll be away from today and back on the 4th of Jan. I'm off to the US and Canada~

Hmmm, time difference will be terrible to adjust to! Ho hum.

Journal back to normal when I am back.

Life/Art

Hoho, tomorrow is gonna be my birthday already. Lol, I'm having a rather lonered birthday for the first time tomorrow, parents are away, heaps of my friends won't be there (poor is sick though so she doesn't count! Get better soon!) Haaa... Well one good thing is that I will be having dinner at Sushi Rio tomorrow And thats about all I know. I know I got Kanon's new single and some other nice stuff from my mum in Japan though, she'll be back on Sunday

Lol as you can tell, I've been posting recently.

I still haven't had time to edit the next few pages of Dead Last yet unfortunately as I am working hard on scanning the RAWS and scanlating Dear (more info below)

Heh, its actually not too terribly difficult a task now that I have photoshop running again, however it takes up a lot of time. Luckily I have enough free time lately since I've finished with School Certificate and hardly have that much work to do now. Though I would like to thank and for helping me with the upcomming chapter. They have put up with my persistent pestering. Maeoneechan helping with my translating troubles and Sempai who helped me type it in Japanese for maeoneechan since my computer's Japanese language bar doesn't work! Thank you~~~!! I hope Cee-sempai has a good time at formal tonight.

Warning: Rant ahead. Please skip onto the next part if you're not bothered

Gee, besides all this happening I've actually had a pretty not-so-good week for school. I seem to always have problems getting to school on important occasions.

Yesterday we had our first Peer Support training day and my bus came half an hour late and I almost got culled.

Today we had strike in the morning then I missed the bus and had to wait once again for half an hour. I'm pretty sure I got culled this time by my group teacher. Really I have decided I don't really like her and I now understand why Sez-mui hates her. Out whole azn group was practically completely ignored for the two days except for when she absolutely had to talk to us. I got ignored 3 times when I tried to report back to her after she sent me on an errand. I mean what the hell.

Another reason is that she seriously plays favourites. She only even pays attention and jokes around with the "mucking around popular group" and doesn't care when they don't pay attention or acts rude to her. And by the way, you should note they are mostly guys as well. =..= Honestly, Ediva and I rekon our whole azn group will probably get culled off because of this.


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PROMOTING~+Scanlations
♛Updates and downloads~

Dear

Okay I've offically picked up the series from Chapter 16b onwards! It should be released pretty soon once I've finished with the final translation of some parts!
Anyway so anyone have a preferred method of download? (i.e. what site do you want me to host it on the most) Also I am still looking for some more people who can help me translate some of the hard parts so if you are pretty fluent enough at Japanese please tell me! It would make the process of releasing chapters faster.

Even if you cannot help with the translation, I would greatly appreciate if anyone would help promote the series and link here for chapters once they are up!
Also, I would just like to say beforehand, please do not upload the files elsewhere once they are up, if anyone needs a mirror link then just ask and I will so so myself. Comments will be appreciated!

Chapter 16b [link]




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Regular Manga/Anime/Dorama Talk

Kuroshitsuji
Whoot Shinsen subs have speeded up to catch up to the latest episode finally! Man, I just wanna slap Grell silly, and WHUT?!?!?!?!1 William is voiced by Sasuke/Ishida's voice actor!??!?!?!! :shock:!!!!! GYAAAAHAHHAHAHAH! I can't believe it! And well R.I.P for Madame Red. Somehow I though Paku Romi (Edward Elric/Hitsugaya/etc) voicing her was very fitting. I had sort of imagined her voice when I first read the manga too


ToraDora
Haha to tell you the truth I am actually a few episode behind on this series as I the mkv files don't seem to like me for this series only so I have to wait for the mp4 files to be uploaded


Natsume Yuujinchou
BAHAHAHAHA I didn't realise episode 13 was the last one until the next season next year xD! DAMNIT


Vampire Knight Guilty
HORHORHOR D: It is so good. I guess I just didn't like the first episode xD Farout I can't wait until Yuuki gets her long hair. Her staff Artemis as a Scythe is so badass... I can't wait



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♪Music and what not♪


Wakeshima Kanon
WAHWAHWAH! Oh my goshhhhhh!!! I'm getting her new single which was out on the 12th!!!! My mum rang me yesterday and she said she bought it! First Pressing come to me~~~~~

SID
Must listen to Monochrome no Kiss from the OP of Kuroshitsuji! Lol, my favourite part of the whole song is the "Yasashikute, atsukute, fukou na kisu de~" line XD

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